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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦

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Tech and policy professional interested in global development, space policy, tech for good, effective government, level playing fields, overlooked ideas.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h

Love this story so much.
Student journalists ftw 💪

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 22h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

God bless whoever did this one. #NoKings

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23h

👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice

Sign reading BIG LAW LITTLE BALLS, and then listing a bunch of lil ball'd firms:

A&O Shearman
Cadwalder, Wickersham
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul, Weiss
Simpson Thatcher
Skadden, Arpa
Willkie Farr

Then the sign ends with a Trump quote that should make these firms put their heads in the proverbial bag:

"They gave me a lot of money considering they did nothing wrong"

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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 18h

Eight of whom were immigrants btw.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20h

Song in my head today

#NoKings #Manhattan

sign at a rally with uncle sam pointing at us. text reads:

COME ON PEOPLE NOW
SMILE ON YOUR BROTHER
EVERYBODY GET TOGETHER
AND IMPEACH THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT NOW

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 21h

Protesters formed a human banner Saturday morning at S.F.'s Ocean Beach, spelling out “NO KINGS” and “YES ON 50,” encouraging the passage of a measure on the November ballot to redraw California’s congressional districts in response to Texas’ GOP-focused remapping.

📸: Laure Andrillon / AFP

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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 20h

Sonoma shows up! Hard to tell from the picture, but thousands of folks are spread over many blocks. Great signs.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 23h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The antifa terrorist marxists are out

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the pic, @dailycaller.bsky.social !

Be sure to tag me and @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social with your best, most fun #NoKings content!

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Dr. Vulpes @doctorvulpes.bsky.social · 23h

Check this gentleman out…shirt and tie…in ruby red Missouri

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Clyde and I are on our way to #NoKings!

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23h

just conceptually, why this from DOT - and has anyone ever read the Hatch Act?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

This is what the Department of Transportation is tweeting out today.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

Lots of nussy signs today. I love you, America 😂😂

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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 23h

Trump is right. Both sides should declare victory and end the war.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-z...

Trump says both Ukraine and Russia should declare victory after meeting with Zelenskyy: "Let history decide!"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited to ask President Trump for more military aid as the war with Russia persists.

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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 1d

"I know, it sounds truly crazy.
And true, the vision's hazy.
But I swear someday there'll be
A celebration throughout Oz,
That's all to do with me!"

Elphaba, Wicked

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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1d

NYC

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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 1d

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Kristi Noem took the $50K 'exotic sports car' of Rolex watches on her trip to a Salvadoran prison

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem visited a notorious Salvadorian prison wearing a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, which retails at around $50,000.

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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 1d

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Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

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Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 1d

“This year, though, we’ve been clear about where we stand: We’re profoundly concerned about the United States’ authoritarian turn and the tech industry’s complicity in Trump’s actions. And we’re committed to continuing our coverage."

Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social · 1d

John Battelle is right. We should thank Wired Magazine. @battellemedia.com.

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Wired Takes a Risk, and We Should Thank Them

We didn't have much money when we launched Wired back in January of 1993, but we needed to get the word out somehow. We couldn't spend our way into brand recognition, so we orchestrated a guerilla cam...

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